reintroduction
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See also: réintroduction
English
Etymology
From re- + introduction.
Noun
reintroduction (plural reintroductions)
- The act of introducing something again.
- The release of animals from captivity into the wild, especially, into an area where they have become extirpated or greatly reduced.
- 2008, Edward O. Price, “Maternal and Neonatal Behavior”, in Principles and Applications of Domestic Animal Behavior: An Introductory Text, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Cambridge, Mass.: CABI, →ISBN, page 149:
- Klopfer and Gamble (1966) gave 16 female goats (C. hircus) 5 min of contact with their young at parturition. Nine of the mothers had been temporarily rendered anosmic (could not smell) at parturition by spraying a 10% cocaine hydrogen chloride solution into their nostrils 20–90 min prior to parturition. […] Eight of the nine females who were anosmic at parturition but could smell at reintroduction accepted their own offspring, as well as alien young during reinstatement.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 195:
- The IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), for example, restricts use of the word ʽreintroductionʼ to species that have become extinct locally or Europe-wide no more than 200 to 300 years ago.
- (countable) An animal so released.
Translations
the act of introducing something again
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